Important Watches, Collector's Wristw...

The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Hong-kong, Jun 08, 2002

LOT 217

Trilogy of Time.In 1985, Ulysse Nardin launched a series of three astronomical wristwatches composed of the "Astrolabium Galileo Galilei", the "Planetarium Copernicus", and the "Tellurium Johannes Kepler". These unique watches include a multitude of complications and information offered by no other watchmaker. The Trilogy's complications embody the relationship between time and the solar system in the form of a wristwatch.Jaeger LeCoultre, "Reverso Chronographe Rétrograde", No. 059/500, Ref. 270.2.69. Produced in a limited edition of 500 examples in the 1990's.Fine and rare, rectangular, double face, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and date, with 44 hours autonomy and 18K pink gold Jaeger LeCoultre deployant clasp.

C. three body, solid, polished, ridged bezel, transparent back. D. guilloché silver with painted Arabic numerals on a plain reserve, aperture for the date, chronograph start/stop display, aperture for the date; on the back, the seconds and the retrograde 30 minutes register ring dials. "Bâton" blued steel hands. M. 9''' copper colored, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 26 x 42 mm.